Trump's policies providing a prime business opportunity for Australia

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[quote=ABC News]In Donald Trump's America not everybody is welcome.

Even the prospect of him landing in the White House was enough to make large numbers of prospective US visitors change their plans.

"What we saw before the presidential election was a 4 per cent drop of people into the US coming from the UK and Japan, 5 per cent drop from people coming from Italy, 7 per cent from France and 10 per cent from Germany, and a commensurate increase here in Australia of visitors from those countries," Tourism and Transport Forum CEO Margy Osmond said.

President Trump's anti-Mexican rhetoric, the ban on many Muslims and now his ban on laptops in some US-bound aeroplanes will deliver an estimated $7 billion hit to the US tourism industry this year alone.

But it is the US's $370 billion-a-year conferencing and business events industry that's really in the firing line, according to the executive chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, Peter Harbison.[/quote]

Read the rest of the article at [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-05/trump-policies-provide-australia-with-business-event-opportunity/8417932[/url]

This shouldn't be surprising. Trump's protectionist ideals, combined with his ostracising of many kinds of people and nations - Mexicans, Muslims etc, and China - will see much international business divest from the United States, to find friendlier places to do business in.

The article is from an Australian source so of course it will speak up of opportunities for Australia, but in reality, the US' loss will be realised as a gain for many other places in the world - the UK, the EU, Canada, China, Singapore etc.

[BlackMageMari]

It's time for us to take advantage as land of a thousand welcomes. Sure it'll be great craic to bring new bloom into the tourist industry.

Gotta watch out for the Americans though. I'll say a fair few of them will become refugees. :v:

[The Jack]

"oh, you wanna move here? We got land..."

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